Re: Appender filtering

["Jacob L. Anawalt" <ja...@geckosoftware.com>]

Jacob L. Anawalt wrote:
> I am getting info and debug messages in my system logs. 

I have purchased the log4j manual and it looks like I have the appender 
threshold settings correct.

Here is the output of the attached program and configuration file.

2008-02-29 23:07:12 DEBUG root  - 1
2008-02-29 23:07:12 DEBUG MyApp  - 2
2008-02-29 23:07:12 WARN  root  - 3
2008-02-29 23:07:12 WARN  MyApp  - 4

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Re: Appender filtering

["Jacob L. Anawalt" <ja...@geckosoftware.com>]

Jacob L. Anawalt wrote:
> I'm going to give the LevelRangeFilter object a go via filter statements 
> in an XML config.

This appears to be a very workable solution for my needs. I expect that the 
Threshold option to an Appender is slightly more efficient, but I am not worried 
about it.

Thank you for the your work. I look forward to 0.10 in a future release of Debian.
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Jacob Anawalt
Gecko Software, Inc.
janawalt@geckosoftware.com
435-752-8026

Re: Appender filtering

["Jacob L. Anawalt" <ja...@geckosoftware.com>]

Curt Arnold wrote:
> I think the trailing semi-colon after WARN is messing you up.

Thank you for pointing that out. I will watch for that in the future. 
Unfortunately it turned out to be more than this. The full app I am testing did 
not have the semi-colon and neither did the XML config I tried.

I tracked it down to fileappender.cpp:166 in the Debian package liblog4cxx9c2a 
(log4cxx version 0.9.7-6). WriteAppender::setOption was being passed the wrong 
variable (name instead of option). It looks like this is already fixed in the 
development version. I then found an email thread [1] mentioning a similar bug 
report [2].

I'm going to give the LevelRangeFilter object a go via filter statements in an 
XML config.

[1] http://marc.info/?l=log4cxx-user&m=119533748424148&w=2
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOGCXX-207

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Gecko Software, Inc.
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Re: Appender filtering

[Curt Arnold <ca...@apache.org>]

On Feb 29, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Jacob L. Anawalt wrote:

> Jacob L. Anawalt wrote:
>> I am getting info and debug messages in my system logs.
>
> I have purchased the log4j manual and it looks like I have the  
> appender threshold settings correct.
>
> Here is the output of the attached program and configuration file.
>

..
> log4j.appender.CONSOLE.Threshold=WARN;
>
> log4j.rootLogger=ALL, CONSOLE
>


I think the trailing semi-colon after WARN is messing you up.  If it  
can't find a level with the specified name (in this case "WARN;"), it  
will default to "DEBUG".